Arthur sends the scan from The Hollywood Reporter (May 16, 2014 issue):
Morrissey the Movie
One of the most unique - and oblique - figures in music is about to get a biopic and, like him, a highly unusual one. The unauthorized film
Steven - the first name of former
Smiths' leader
Morrissey - will cover the pre-Smiths life of the depressive poetic bisexual vegetarian, growing up in bleak Manchester, England, and his triumph over an alienated childhood to become the cult star he is today. (The singer, 54, is on tour, playing the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on May 10.) It will be helmed by
Mark Gill, the British writer-director of the Oscar-nominated short
The Voorman Problem. Producers include
Orian Williams (
Control,
Big Sur), who clearly has a thing for biopics: His current one is on
The Who's late manager
Kit Lambert. Shooting will...